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Syndicating the SEO Expert Blog Feed
This blog posting contains detailed instructions for individuals and webmasters seeking to syndicate the SEO Expert Blog content for use in their favourite feed-reader or to display on their own site....
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Submit Sitemap to MSN, Google and Yahoo
In November 2006, Google, Yahoo! and MSN joined forces to support a new industry standard for sitemaps: Sitemaps 0.90 (see MSN announcement...
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Better Google.co.uk Search Engine Rankings
Many UK webmasters find it frustrating that their website does not rank better on Google.co.uk, their home search engine. Research has shown that 3.5 times as many searchers in the UK use google.co.uk...
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List of UK Directories
Many UK-based webmasters often ask if there is a list anywhere of directories and search engines based in the UK Ireland. This posting on my blog offers a list of 20 such directories, together with...
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The Google Sandbox
Much has been written about the Google Sandbox effect. Much of what has been written is very suspect speculation! This article sets out to debunk a few myths and answer the most common questions that...
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Submit site to Baidu and Yandex
In China, Google enoys only a 27% market share; very much second fiddle to 百度搜索 (Baidu) with 55%. Similarly, in Russia, Google is in third place, with Яндекс (Yandex) the clear leader. More than 50% of...
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SEO for Google Earth
Why on Google Earth am I suggesting optimisation for the world's favourite bit of fun? Well, Google are currently investing heavily in mobile and geographical information offerings, including a new...
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Google Universal Search SEO
Earlier this month, Google unveiled a new Universal Search system, a radical change to its search results pages that will surface listings from its news, video, images, local and book verticals with...
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Search Engine History - The Early Years
So where did it all start? In the first of three posts on the history of the Search Engines, I look at the history of the internet itself and the forerunners to modern, web-based search engines (in the...
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Search Engine History - Web Search Before Google
Did Google always dominate the web search market? In the second of three posts on the history of the Search Engines, I look at the pioneers of the early search market, including the very first web...
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Search Engine History - How Google came to dominate
So how did Google get from a market share of <1% in 1999 to almost 80% today? What is so special about Google and how has it come to dominate the scene? In this article, the third in my search...
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The Future of Search - The decline of Google?
An incredible 256 million people visited a search engine in December 2006 – 81% of the global Internet population. Neilsen, Hitwise and Enquisite estimate Google’s underlying market share to be in the...
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Top 10 tips to rank well on Google
UK Search Expert, David Viney, provides his 10 top tips to improve the search ranking of your business. This article is soon to feature in Better Business...
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The Trouble with Paid Links (on Google)
Over the last six months (or more) Google has been on a campaign to eliminate the scourge of paid links (where people pay highly ranked - and often unrelated - websites to link to their own). In this...
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SiteLinks and SiteSearch on Google
Google have recently changed the way in which search results are formatted, to incorporate greater use of both SiteLinks and SiteSearch boxes. In this article, David Viney explores (a) how to get them,...
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Google Street View Privacy Issues or Valuable Tool?
Since Google received the go-ahead from the UK Information Commissioner's Office, the process of capturing street images in the UK has begun. There has been much controversy in the media. David Viney...
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Google Knol SEO Mecca but Copyright Hell
Since Google launched it’s own answer to Wikipedia – Knol – the debate has raged about the copyright and SEO implications. In this short article, David Viney investigates what Knol is, how it differs...
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